Hairpin box



lbe krequired for restoring the same.

Patented pr. '5, 1927.

terasse `Arizur lorries.

VERNON a, JononNnw venir, N. r.

l HArnrrN nox.

Application iled January 2, 1924. Serial No. 633,852.

Thisiinvention relatesto boxes or Vcontainersy for hair pins orsin'nlar articles. Considerable inconvenience'and loss has Aheretofore, been' experienced by retailers vand salesmen in the handling of hair pins in boxes for the reason that a customer, Vin examining the. hair pins,y upon opening` the box',-would frequently spill the hair pins out of the box, and considerable time woisild e.. curing the hair `pins in bundles for the pun pose of` overcoming I this vdiifliculty isA Vnot satisfactory for` the reason that fa customer cannot, satisfactorily lexamine the hair pins when 1n bundles, vandifa bundle is broken tofgive the. customer a chance to examine a sino'le yhair ,.in. the ins cannot a ain be b Y broken away.

bundled f by the salesman.

" VThe objects of this invention are to pro-v videa hair pin boxwhichhis sofmade as to supportV a plurality of hair pins within the box without making it necessary to iirst secureV the" hair. pins together in bundles, andy which will permit the ready removal and replacing of individual Vhair pins with-V out in *any way impairing the. ability of the box to retain the other pins; also to ini-y prove the .construction of hair pin .boxes in "other respects hereinafter specified.

In the accoinpanyingvdrawings: y

Fig. 1 isa face view of a hairpin box einbodying 4iny invention, the box being 'shown open to ldisplay the pins.

Fig; 2 is a face View of half Vof the box, one of thel pockets `of the `box being partly Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional elevation of arclosed box. f

\ Fig. 4 is a transversesectional plan view thereof.

In the .particularembodiment of the invention shown in the drawings, the box einployed is made in two parts or halves A and B, `which are connected by means of a flexible strip or band C forming a hinge upon-which the twopartsof the box swing so that their open faces come' together to close the box. LkEach part of the box includes a back portion or wall 5 having` end walls 6 and 7, and'side wallsS` and 9 connected therewith, the two side wallsv 9 of each of the halves of the box being con- Vnected by means of the iexible strip C. 'It

will be understoodthat the particular form of box shown is not by itself a part of my engaged by the hair pins when the same' are in their normal positions. In the par ticular construction shown in the drawings,

the4 pockets or hairpin retaining devices are in the forin of tubes of substantially rectangular cross section, preferably made of paper, card board or the like, and. these tubes are secured against the rear wall of the box, preferably in such `a manner that the front face of each tube will not extend outwardly beyond the side and end'walls 6, 7, 8 and 9 of Veach. part of the box. These tubes may, ifjdesired, be of different lengths, as shown in the drawings, in order to adequately display hair pins of different lengths.

In theuse of the box described, each tube is intended to contain a group of hair pins which, however, are not bundled, but loosely placed into the tube. This is done bv cornpressing` the ends of the hair pins toward each other' and `then inserting the group intothe tubes or pockets. Upon releasingl pressure on the ends of the hair pins, these ends will spring outwardly away from each other, due to the inherent spring action of each of the hair pins, and the ends or sides of the hair pins will thus engage the hair pin retaining.;` device or tube Ayieldingly' so y' yso but with suficient force to prevent a group orfbundle of hair pins from being accidentally moved out of the retaining device. In the case of the particular construction shown, the tubes with the hair pins in place there-y in are then glued or otherwise secured to the back 5 of the box. Consequently acustomer in carelessly opening a box of hair pins will not cause the spilling of the hair pins owing to the fact that all of the pins are frictionally held in their retaining devices' or pockets and at the same time any of the pins can be removed from the retain-y ing devices and examined by the customer without in any way impairing the holding action of the pockets `or retaining devices upon the remaining hair pins, and the pin which has been removed can be restored without any diiliculty and without in any way changing the appearance ofA the package.

Another' feature of the box shown in the accompanying drawing is that the end walls 6 and T of the box are so positioned with reference to each other and with reference to the pockets or pin retaining devices D that. il the pins should accidentally be slipped lengthwise in the package, as may, tor example, happen if the end wall G of the box is subjected to a severe shock or blow, the pins will strike the end wall G before the tree ends of thtl pin become disengaged from the pockets or retaining devices D. In order to obtain this result the distance between the end walls 6 and 7 must be less than the combined length of a retaining` device and the hair pins contained therein. By means of this additional feature, the accidental spilling oi pins from the pin retaining devices is practically eliminated. In Fig. 2 a bundle of pins is shown in its outer position in which the end of the bundle engages the end wall 6 and it will be seen that the pins are still retained in their pocket or holding device.

By means oi" the construction described the spilling ot' hair pins from boxes which has heretofore been a troublesome tactor in the selling of hair pins is practically eliminated and at the same time a customer is given the opportunity of examining individual hair pins before making a purchase, without in any way damaging the package. The use otl a retaining' device for yieldingly engaging the sides of the hair pin is particularly ef- 'l'ective it the retaining device is supplied with a group of hair pins containing as many hair pins as can be convenient-ly crowded into the retaining device since by crowding the hair pins into the device, the group of pins acts substantially like a single unit in that the pins will not tend to move rela tively to the group o't' pins unless positively pulled ont. Consequently individual pins, whose resiliency may not be such as to cause the sides thereof to exert much pressure against the retaining device, will nevertheless be held against spilling out of the box.

I claim as my invention:

1. A display device for hair pins which comprises a supporting form. and a plurality ot enclosures tor hair pins supported thereby, each of said enclosures being shorter than the hair pins to be supported therebyand of approximately uniform widths `in cross section, said width being slightly less than the. normal distance between the 'tree ends of the arms otl the pins to be supported therein, whereby the pins must have their arms compressed somewhat to be inserted in the enclosures and when so inserted will be frictionally held therein b v the spring pressure ot the arms against the sides of the enclosure.

i A hair pin box including a back, and side and end walls. and a plurality of substantially tubular pockets secured to said hack, each ot said pockets heilig of such size as to receive the ends of a plurality ot' hair pins and to engage the sides oi said pins to hold the pins in place, said end walls being so spaced as to engage a group ot hair pins when the same is moved lengthwise out ot said pockets and prevent the sides of the pins from moving out ot' engagement with said pockets. whereby the removal of the hair pins as a group is prevented.

3. A display device for hair pins which comprises a box having an open face. said box having in its interior a plurality of containers extending closely adjacent and parallel to the open tace of the box in the saine direction from adjacent one end, each ot' a length less than the length of the pins to be inserted therein and terminating from the opposite box end a distance slightlyv less than the length of the pins to be inserted therein, whereby the pins in each container will be normally coniiued therein and may be removed only by first flexing through the open face ot the box those ends ot' the pins which project from the containers.

la display device for hair pins which comprises a box having an open tace, said box having in its interior a plurality of containers extending closely adjacent and parallel to the open .t'ace of the box in thc same direction from adjacent one end, each of a length less than the length of the pins to be inserted therein and terminating from the opposite box end a distance slightly less than the length of the pins to be inserted therein, whereby the pins in each container will be normally confined therein and may be removed only by tirst flexing through the open tace ot' the box those. ends ot the pins which project from the containers. the widths ot the containers being slightly less than the normal distance between the tree ends of the arms ot the pins to be inserted therein. whereby the pins must have the i'ree ends of their arms compressed together somewhat before. insertion into the containers with their loop ends projecting from the containers. and when so inserted will be frictionally held therein by the spring pressure ot' the arms against the sides of the enclosure.

VER-NGN A. JOY. 

